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J.G. Ballard: Kingdom Come

Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags , , , , , , on June 14, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

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I thought it was time to pay him a visit and see if he could freak me out like he used to.

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J.G. Ballard: Kingdom Come

Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 5, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

I love J.G. Ballard.

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The Magic Mountain

Posted in Reading with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2025 by Jarrod Boyle

The internet is like having a giant bilge pipe mounted above the armchair in your lounge room with all kinds of garbage gushing out of it. There is hardly a moment to take stock and discriminate amongst the torrent of what’s raining down upon you.

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I Dream About You

Posted in Goddess, Love letters, Pornography with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 16, 2024 by Jarrod Boyle

‘…nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.’

Gabriel Garcia Marquez,

Love in the Time of Cholera.

I dreamed that we were on an Italian beach at sunset, sitting on the sand. We watched as night passed over the ocean and climbed the cliff face as the sun withdrew beneath the rim of the world, leaving the heat of the day to radiate from the earth as the echo of its passing.

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